I connected 4 wires between each of the rectifier and amplifier boards (V-,PG-,PG+,V+) and then the L+R CHG connections to the chassis earth point with a 10ohm resistor on each. I wanted to try and keep both channels seperate, but this is causing a low hum. I have tried it with and without the resistors, and I get more hum without them. I am also getting some distortion in the low frequency range.

Is there any reason why I can't use the same set up as you have used (page 4 of this thread), connecting both channels together with 14ga solid copper wire, or will it have to be modified in some way?

Regards,

Chris.

Well, it just goes to show that if you get the grounding right, this kit can sound awesome.

I used Peter's example on page 4 as a guide, and it works a treat. The only difference is that I used thick (@twice the diameter of the holes on the PCB) silver plated copper wire as the star power earth point between each channel. I had to do a lot of fettling (filing down)of the ends to get the wire to fit in the PCB. It was also very difficult to solder the wires on to the earth point. I had to rough it up slightly and use silver solder to get the wires to stick.

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I'm using my standard chassis and start with mounting the chip to copper heatsink. The chip case is not insulated, so isolation pad is required as well plastic washers under the mounting screw (an aluminum oxide pad was used here).

I also install 3 famous resistors: 22K for input shunt and feedback and 1.5K gain setting Riken. The customer asked for lower gain that's why I didn't use 680R as usually.

You can also see input wires coming from RCA socket (23awg silver wire from DH Labs) and speaker output wire (19awg Kimber TCSS)

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To install the caps, I choose delrin blocks. Here you see 100uF BG N caps (the sleeves are removed only for the caps to fit in standard 5/8 holes done with Forstner bit). The ground pins of each caps pair are connected together.

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The power wires from rectifier board are directly connected to cap pins (2 for V+ and 2 for V-), the ground wires from rectifier board connect to common star ground point at the center of previously mentioned (black) wire.

From here, the common ground point is connected through thermistor (CL-60) to Earth ground pin on power entry module (chassis is not grounded yet, awaiting installation of bottom panel), the additional RCA is used to connect external devices to amp's star ground (customer's special request)

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